Sharp County record., 1887-07-07
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Kas., on the 2lst
IT is thought at the White House that
the President is not likely to resume MS
afternoon receptions before October IL
is not certain that he will ever return to
the practice Of holding regular tri-weekly
receptions. 1t is understood that he IS
very tired of them.
COLONEL LAMONT, the Presidents prl-
vate secretary, has gone to New YORK
and is not expected to return for several
DAYS. He will probably accompany Mrs
Cleveland when she returns to Washing
ton.
JOHNNY SHELCUT, ten years Of age, was
drowned in the Arkansas river, above
Mountain Park, Little Rock, Ark, on the
evening of the 21st. He and another
urchin were standing on log that ex-
tended from the bank about ten feet over
the water, and dog tried to pass them
when Johnny lost his hold and plunged
headlong into the water below with the
above result.
JAMES AND THOMAS KENDALL, two
brothers, were struck by lightning and
instantly killed at Birds Eye, Ind, on
the GOTH They were seated on a shaving
horse under a tree during a severe
thunderstorm at work making axe
handles, when the lightning struck tree
some fifteen yards distant and was trans
mitted to the tree under which they were
seated by metallic clothes-line.
VIM A. ROBERTS, local agent for the
American Express Company at Lincoln,
ILL.,, attempted to commit suicide on the
21st by taking a dose of morphine. A
physician was summoned and saved his
life by energetic work. Roberts is mar
ried man about twenty-six years OF age
and his rash act occasions some surprise.
A SERIOUS accident occurred on the
Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore
railway at Havre de Grace, Md, on the
21st, by which large number OF persons
were injured, some of them very serious
ly. .,
A SOLEMN requiem mass was celebrated
in the Church of the Holy Innocence in
New York, on the 2lst, for the repose OF
the souls of 1,5Ol 900 Irish who have died
Of starvation during the reign OF queen
Victoria. Rev. John Larkin, pastor,
acted as the celebrant
MRS. JAMES G. BLAI NE is said to be quite
i'll at the Metropole Hotel, London,
TIE Interstate Commerce Commission
heard further testimony on the 22d on the
complaint of the Burton Stock-Car Com
panv of discrimination by various roads.
In the Jake Sharpe trial in New York,
on the 22d, one of the witnesses pleaded
with tears in his eyes, to be excused from
answering a question. Judge Barrett let
HIM crv hut made him answer.
A TERRIBLE explosion Of chemicals oc-
Cured at Manchester, England, on the
22d, and many persons were killed.
EMPEROR WILLIAMS health is reported
ohave improved to it's normal robustness.
JAMES STEADMAN was arrested at
Quincy, Ill, on the 22J, charged with kill
ing Perley Sevall on the Goth, near Zanes-
vile, o.
JOHN O'RoURKE, a bridge builder, Of
Chicago, employed on a bridge being
built below Cedar Rapids, Ia, fell the
evening of the 22d, sustaining fatal in
juries.
MRs. JACoBUs, the nurse of President
Cleveland, died few days ago at Cald-
we'll N. j. She was bora in 1875, and for
over a year had been perfectly helpless,
being paralyzed and blind.
REPORTS from Rowan County, KY, are
to the effect that the old war has been re-
newed, and that Craig Tolliver and many
others have been killed.
STEPHEN PEERE, shoemaker, residing
on the Canadian side Of the Niagara
river, crossed the river at Suspension
Bridge on the 22d, walking upon five
eights inch wire cable.
LARRY Donovan, the brdge-jumping
crank, who was arrested as he was about
to lump from the Clifton uspension bridge
at Bristol, England, was discharged on
the 22d upon furnishing sureties that ne
would make no further effort to jump
from the bridge.
A VIOLENT storm Of wind and rain broke
over Wilmington, Del, on the 22l and
ragged furiously for half an hour, unroof-
ing buildings, leveling chimneys, uproot-
ing and twisting off trees and doing many
thousand dollars worth Of damage in va
riOus ways.
FIVE men boarded a Grand Trunk train
at Fort Gratiot, Mich, on the 22d, and
"held up'' the passengers. Several LOST
what money they had, and one man lost
s8O. Three men have been arrested and
are now in Jail at Port Huron, and more
arrests will follow
JACK MARTIN, brakeman on the Wash
ington, Cedar Rapids q Northern rail
road, in drunken row at his home IN
Cedar Rapids, Ia, on the 2l, stabbed
Dave McElroy, boiler maker in the
shops of that road. McElroy was stabbed
twice, fatally, in the groin and right lung
He is unmarried. Martin is in custody
THE bodies of ten persons, all children
except two, were exhumed at Philadel-
phia on the 22d, and portions taken from
each to determine by analysis whether or
not their deaths resulted from eating
sweet buns colored with confectiOners'
yellow or other adulteratlve, as has been
charged.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY MAYNARD has
granted the application Of the Mechanics
Institute of San Francisco to exhibit,
without payment of duties, foreign goods
intended for the coming exposition to be
held by the institute, subject to the condi-
tions usually prescribed in such cases.
The American yacht Mayfower defeat
ed the English yacht Gal atea in the Mar
blehead Mass regatta on the 23l.
TIVE London Lancet states that the health
Of the Crown Prince of Germany is excel
lent.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND is reported TO
have told Congressman Townshend on the
23d that he would cel tainly make bis
Western trip.
The mayor Of Cork appears to have got
ten himself INTO trouble by hosting
black flag on jubilee day.